Senior Rendering Software Engineer

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Position: Senior Rendering Software Engineer

Previous experience: Previous experience with C++, 3D rendering engines and frameworks is required.

Location: Milan or Gallarate, Italy; Cambridge, United Kingdom - Hybrid (3 days at the office)

Employment type: Full-time regular (flexible working options available)

Benefits: Italy - Competitive salary; high quality healthcare for employee, dependents and parents; annual healthcare assessments; employee provident fund; life and accident insurance; childcare reimbursements for working mothers; 3 days paid volunteering; meal card. UK - Competitive salary; flexible benefits fund which can be utilised against over 20 benefits; BUPA private medical; pension scheme with up to 9% employer contribution; life insurance; income protection insurance; 28 days annual leave (plus bank holidays); 3 days paid volunteering.

The job

As part of our global XR & Visualization group, you’ll collaborate with a team of skilled software development engineers in the 3D Framework team to design and develop new features for the AVEVA cross-platform 3D Rendering Engine. This role will see you work closely with CVS Rendering Framework team.

Key responsibilities

• Collaborate with scrum colleagues on the development of AVEVA's proprietary 3D Rendering Engine.
• Design and implement new features and improve user experiences on high-performance 3D Rendering Engine for all supported platforms.
• Provide support to the execution and delivery teams.

Ideal experience

• Bachelor or MS (preferred) degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or similar technical discipline.
• 5+ years of relevant industry experience in 3D real-time programming.
• Excellent C++ programming, a good working knowledge of OOP patterns, unit testing, data structures, multi-threading. Writing code driven by performances and maintainability.
• Good GPU and CPU debugging and optimization skills from bare-metal to high-level, with strong understanding of graphics pipelines and rendering techniques.
• Deep experience with one or more graphics/compute APIs (DirectX, Vulkan, Metal, OpenGL, etc.).
• Good knowledge of GPU shader programming (GLSL, HLSL, etc).
• Good understanding of 3D Math, Linear Algebra, Trigonometry, Linear Transformations.
• Solid experience with Windows desktop development environment.
• Knowledge of version systems (like Git) and agile software development methodologies.
• Solid English skills.

Great skills to have

• Experience with web browser porting toolchain for native 3D applications (i.e. wasm/emscripten/blazor).
• Experience with C# programming language.
• Software development under Linux OS.
• Understand OS internals from kernel up to application layer
• Experience with cross-platform XR game engines (Unreal, Unity, etc).

The team you’ll join

You will join a very talented, brilliant and multicultural team spread across Europe and India. Our team is doing some of the most exciting work at AVEVA: delivering best-in-class Extended Reality (XR) and 3D visualisation technologies for use across AVEVA’s industrial software portfolio.

R&D at AVEVA

Our global team of 2000+ developers work on an incredibly diverse portfolio of over 75 industrial automation and engineering products, which cover everything from data management to 3D design. AI and cloud are at the centre of our strategy, and we have over 150 patents to our name.

Our track record of innovation is no fluke – it’s the result of a structured and deliberate focus on learning, collaboration and inclusivity. If you want to build applications that solve big problems, join us!

Hiring process

Interested? Great! Get started by submitting your cover letter and CV through our application portal. Our typical application process involves interviews and a technical exercise. If you need reasonable accommodation to participate in the application process, please let us know.

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